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In article <1993Jan12.223718.25158@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>
>Nut if you ever plan on adding stuff in the forseeable future, then SCSI is
>cheaper in the long run. You cn add CDROM, tape, more disk, etc, without
>having to add more adapter cards, and chewing up your precious IRQ's and
>stuff.
>
>I have 3 disks, CDROM, and tape on my Adaptec 1542b. Best investment I
>ever made on my system.

What is all this "pack my pc with crap" stuff all about?

Who needs more than 2 hard drives in a PC?
(If you have 3 hard drives then you made a boo boo when you bought the 
second drive)

An IDE controller can control 2 hard drives, 2 floppy drives, and you can
get tape backup drives that hook up to your floppy disk controller.
Serial, parallel, and game ports also on the IDE card.
All that on 1 card.

If you have a separate card for serial/parallel I/O, then you've "wasted"
that slot anyways.  You need 2 slots for SCSI hard drive, 1 for the hard
controller, and 1 for the I/O (unless there are single board SCSI
controllers that have floppy and serial/parallel ports).

2 hard/2 floppy/1 tape backup/2 serial/1 parallel/1 or 2 game ports on card 1
A proprietary CD-rom controller takes up slot #2
A video card takes up slot #3
A Sound card takes up slot #4
A fax/modem card takes up slot #5
Optional specialty video board takes up slot #6 

And now, with local bus boards, you usually have 2 slots, one for video and
one for the drive controller.  I bet the local bus IDE controllers stand
up pretty good against comparible SCSI controllers, and are probably 1/4 the
cost.

If SCSI is the be-all/end-all, why are there no SCSI floppy drives?
Any SCSI video cards?  SCSI modems?  SCSI sound cards?

So many SCSI device id's, but relatively few SCSI devices...